Monday, October 21, 2024
Dear SCEC Community,
See the following announcements:
  • NAIRR Portal - NSF-funded SGX3 requests your input
  • SZNet 2025 Chile Field Trip - Application Deadline Approaching!
  • Assistant Professor in Marine Geophysics
  • Register for the January 2025 USGS Subduction Zone Science Meeting!
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On behalf of Amit Chourasia, UCSD

NAIRR Portal - NSF-funded SGX3 requests your input

The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) is set to revolutionize AI research accessibility in the United States. A key part of this vision is the NAIRR Portal, a central hub connecting researchers, educators, and students with crucial AI resources. We're excited to invite you to participate in a survey that will directly shape the design and development of this transformative platform.

Your input is invaluable in ensuring that the NAIRR Portal meets the diverse needs of our AI community and empowers researchers from all backgrounds to innovate and address critical societal challenges. The survey will take approximately 15 minutes, and all responses will be anonymized and reported in aggregate to NSF.

Take the Survey Now: Survey Link

The NSF CI CoE: SGX3 – A Center of Excellence to Extend Access, Expand the Community, and Exemplify Good Practices for CI Through Science Gateways leads this effort and provides the NAIRR Pilot Portal. If you'd like to stay informed about this work or receive the SGX3 newsletter, please share your email in the survey comments.

Together, let's build a brighter future for AI research. Thank you for your time and dedication.

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On behalf of SZ4D

SZNet 2025 Chile Field Trip - Application Deadline Approaching!

Apply before the deadline to SZ4D’s second interdisciplinary SZNet Field Trip. This field trip will explore Chile from east to west, starting just south of Santiago. Participants will journey through the volcanic cordillera, making stops in the central valley and coastal regions to investigate stratigraphic exposures and landforms.
This field trip is open to both US and non-US scientists at any career stage interested in cross-disciplinary approaches to researching subduction systems. We encourage participation from a variety of scientific backgrounds with interdisciplinary interests in volcanology, structural geology, geomorphology, and seismo-tectonics.

Join us for this unique opportunity to dive into Chile’s diverse geologic features through this collaborative and immersive field experience!

Please visit the SZ4D website more information about the program, field site, and funding support. We encourage you to apply!

With any questions, please reach out at contact@sz4d.org

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On behalf of Sin-Mei Wu, University of Hawaii at Manoa


Assistant Professor in Marine Geophysics

The Department of Earth Sciences in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa seeks to fill a tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor in marine geophysics. We are interested in candidates whose research addresses questions related to active plate margins (e.g., subduction zones, mid-ocean ridges, oceanic transforms), geohazards, ocean islands, or processes regulating plate tectonics using marine geophysical methods, including, but not limited to, active or passive seismology or electromagnetism, seafloor geodesy, or seafloor cables/DAS. We are particularly interested in candidates who are excited to build a global seagoing research program, and who can leverage our unique location and marine research facilities to develop research and educational foci relevant to Pacific communities. The candidate will build on existing departmental expertise in geophysics, volcanology, coastal processes, and hydrology, and will have opportunities to interact with other research units and organizations across SOEST and the University of Hawaiʻi, as well as with local agencies such as the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. The successful applicant is expected to establish an externally funded and internationally recognized research program, contribute to graduate and undergraduate advising and teaching, and carry out professional service activities. The successful candidate will demonstrate a commitment to faculty performance that aligns with the goals of Mānoa 2025 (manoa.hawaii.edu/strategicplan/), which include becoming a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning, enhancing student success, achieving excellence in research, and building a sustainable and resilient campus environment.

Apply online at www.governmentjobs.com/careers/hawaiiedu - search for position 86201. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Preference will be given to applications received by December 2, 2024. Questions can be addressed to Prof. Garrett Apuzen-Ito, (earth@hawaii.edu) or Prof. Robert Dunn (dunnr@hawaii.edu). The University of Hawai‘i is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

The Department of Earth Sciences (www.soest.hawaii.edu/earthsciences/) has 22 faculty members as well as 35 additional cooperating graduate faculty in the Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology and across the university. Together these faculty instruct and advise approximately 60 graduate students and 100 undergraduate majors. The Department is one of four academic departments and thirteen research units within SOEST (www.soest.hawaii.edu/soestwp/), a world-class research and academic institution focused on informing solutions to some of the world’s most vexing problems. The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is one of 115 Research-1 Universities in the country, is one of only a handful of land–, sea–, space–, and sun–grant institutions, and is a recognized leader in Earth and environmental science (ranked in the top 4% of US institutions in geological and earth sciences by the National Science Foundation). Located in Hawaii's capital city of Honolulu at the crossroads of the Pacific, the campus is home to students, faculty and staff from Hawai‘i, the continental U.S., and more than 100 countries.

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On behalf of Erin Wirth, USGS

Register for the January 2025 USGS Subduction Zone Science Meeting!

The U.S. Geological Survey will host an in-person meeting focused on subduction zone science at the University of Washington in Seattle from January 8-9, 2025. Please register here by Wednesday, November 13th to confirm your attendance (it’s free!).

Sessions will highlight new research, scientific questions, and community engagement efforts related to USGS priorities in subduction zones within the U.S. and globally. Topics will include structure and deformation, earthquake rupture processes and recurrence, volcanic processes, cascading hazards and impacts, and community-focused subduction zone science. We welcome attendees to contribute a short-form (5-minute) talk or poster on any topic related to subduction zones.

The meeting is open to all, and we encourage participation from researchers, agency partners, and end-users working in a range of subduction zone systems. Additional details can be found on the meeting website. Please note that a separate meeting on “The Alaska-Aleutian Subduction Zone: Integrated Science and Future Opportunities” will also be held at UW on Friday, January 10th (website; register to attend by Oct. 25th).

We hope to see you there!

Erin Wirth (ewirth@usgs.gov), Michelle Coombs, alex grant, Joan Gomberg, Emily Johnson, Fred Pollitz, Lydia Staisch, Wes Thelen, and Aaron Wech
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